booNyzarC, on 26 November 2012 - 08:22 PM, said:
As painful as it is to review his ill-informed babble, I don't suppose you can bless us with a link to this supposed epiphany that Woody has
discovered, or should I say
invented?
Edit: Never mind about the link,
I found it.
He is, of course, completely wrong. His reasoning is basically outlined in the following paragraph:
What he is saying here is basically that if ARINC sent the messages, they were received. That's simply ridiculous, and he completely misinterprets the ARINC documentation in order to reach this embarrassingly incorrect conclusion.
No Boo, what he is saying is clearly stated. You simply do not understand what he is saying, or disagree with it.
If I may paraphrase, both the ground stations and the airborne stations were in contact with each other electronically, whether messages went both ways or not.
If the ground and air terminals were NOT in contact with each other, the records would have appeared differently.
When this whole ACARS thing broke last year, I was neutral, simply because I have never used the system in my line of aviation. I have read about it, and understand its usefulness for the air carriers, but had not used it and was not really familiar with it.
At the time I thought Stutts made some good and interesting points, and thus did not take a strong position.
Later research, and the testimony of the UA guy and his supervisor, seems to have clarified things. Similar to a fax system, each end can be communicating with the other, EVEN THOUGH one end may not reply to the other with a text message.